Episode 442: MIDI, CircuitPython and more with Adafruit's Liz Clark (BlitzCityDIY)

Adafruit’s Liz Clark (BlitzCityDIY) spoke with us about MIDI, music, and tutorials.?

Liz’s Adafruit Tutorials?include

• MIDI for Makers
• CircuitPython Trombone Champ Controller
• Mini LED Matrix Audio Visualizer?
• CircuitPython MIDI to CV Skull

Liz sometimes hosts the?Adafruit Show and Tell?which is Wednesdays 7:30pm ET. Speaking of Adafruit videos, we mentioned the?Fusion 360 tutorial on Snap Fit Cases.

Liz’s?BlitzCityDIY YouTube?channel shows her building instruments including her mentioned Melody Maker. She also has many?3D printables?and github repositories under?github.com/BlitzCityDIY

Christopher notes that there are browser extensions that allow a person to stop auto-playing GIFs.

VCVRack?is a Eurorack simulator for synthesizer modules.

Sadly,?Mutable Instruments?has shut down.

The?transcript?from the show is now available, feel free to read, search and repost at your leisure.

Items of Interest

Here's some things we've run across this week that caught our eye:

• From recent guest John Taylor (Episode 438) comes?a?nice C++ shell template for embedded devices.
• Cornell university researchers have come up with?a complete computing machine implemented only using DMA for the RP2040.?Why? Why not?! (It actually has some benefits for doing digital synthesis in tight timing).
• While we're asking why not, why not take a look at?a past favorite article from our own blog on Ping Pong Buffers, by Elecia. Perhaps a more normal way to use DMA.

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